This user has 24 23 answer upvotes in the current month, the month in which they joined. The user has both the vote-cap badges (which require 30 and 40 votes respectively). The user only has 1 rep and ...

I was looking at a couple of my badges to see which questions I earned them on, and noticed a funny little green checkmark next to the badge tag that seemed a bit out of place. The tooltip for it is ...

I've been granted the "Civic Duty" badge on Stack Overflow. However, looking at my profile I'm still five votes away from qualifying for it -- it says only 295 votes cast.
What causes this? Is it a ...

Reputation and badges on Stackoverflow are accumulated based on transparent, well-defined and objectively applied rules and primarily measure activities on the site (badges) and judgements (which are ...

This wording seems a bit ambiguous to me:
"Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions"
If you've voted on 600 questions, how can 25% be on questions? (Wouldn't 100% be on ...

Getting the Publicist gold badge sounds as an extremely hard to achieve task. You need to share a link to question or an answer, that will be visited by at least 1000 unique IP addresses. There are ...

I recently made this edit to a post that was older than 6 months, but didn't get the excavator badge. Is this a bug, or do you only get it from editing answers? I assumed 'post' meant a question as ...

I answered a still-open question that had two other answers. Being the most recent, mine appeared at the top of the page. I later noticed that one of the other answers had just been edited and was now ...

I'm only asking this here, because the badge may have applications outside of Stack Overflow (for example, the main Stack Exchange Meta), but if it belongs on http://meta.stackexchange.com, all the ...

There have been many complaints about the quality and friendliness of SO in the past, and there still are to some extent. However, over the past few weeks I've been noticing a trend in two particular ...

Is there any way of gaining the analytical badge now that it has been retired.
I have read the posts regarding combining accounts where one already had the badge, however, this would require having ...

The mortarboard badge is obtained when you earn the daily rep maximum for the first time. However, meta doesn't have rep, so it seems impossible to even get it on meta. I don't think 20 upvotes awards ...